Melanotopelia
Sign in to saveMelanotopelia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae. It has four species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichens. This genus includes species characterised by dark pigmentation in their (a ring of tissue encircling their fruiting bodies), non-amyloid , and specific secondary metabolites.
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It sits within the topics Graphidaceae, Graphidales genera and Lichen genera.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderOstropales
- FamilyGraphidaceae
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Graphidaceae
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- taxon name
- Melanotopelia
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- genus
- taxonomic type
- Melanotopelia toensbergii
- taxon author citation
- Lumbsch & Mangold
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Melanotopelia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae. It has four species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichens. This genus includes species characterised by dark pigmentation in their (a ring of tissue encircling their fruiting bodies), non-amyloid , and specific secondary metabolites.
==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed in 2008 by the lichenologists H. Thorsten Lumbsch and Armin Mangold, with M. toensbergii assigned as the type species. The name Melanotopelia comes from the Greek prefix melano- (meaning very dark), which refers to the dark pigmentation of the true exciple, and the genus Topelia (family Gyalectaceae), which it superficially resembles. The type was originally described as a member of the genus Topeliopsis toensbergii in 2000.
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